She charmed him by rolling her self up in the rug and had herself delivered to Caesar. ( what kind of women p.4) Despite the looks Cleopatra’s political and intellectual skills, and her mastery of the language made Caesar admire and have a high regard for Cleopatra( my 15). Caesar adored Cleopatra so much that he even had a gold statue of Cleopatra mounted next to the statue of the goddess to indicate Cleopatra’s political power (my book p.92) Caesar was ready to do anything for his mistress and when support came he squelched the mutinous Egyptian army for his qeen( what kind of women p. 5) He strengthen Cleopatra’s position as queen of Egypt and from 47 to 30 BC Cleopatra ruled independently (book Egypt p.24) In the Spring of 47 BC Caesar and Cleopatra departed to a cruise on the Nile ( Egypt p.24). ,,It was not sybaritic private cruise but a procession charged with political meaning”. ( the Nile cruise).
Sexton targets this concept of inequality--especially in the enormous gulf between female and male roles--to illustrate how fairy tales are far from “happily ever after.” In the introductory section of “Cinderella,” Sexton derisively conveys formulaic examples of “once upon a time” fairy-tale success stories. She generates humor by creating an outrageous disparity between the before and after in each case. For example, Sexton tells of such improbable transformations as “From toilets to riches,” “From diapers to Dior,” “From homogenized to martinis,” and “From mops to Bonwit Teller” (Sexton 1). Nevertheless, this humor mocks the perception that to be successful, a person must start out as dirt poor and by a stroke of luck, shakes the hand of Midas. Because Cinderella matches this model perfectly, it is, therefore, used as a stereotypical standard.
2) How does Romeo describe the woman he loves in Scene 1? Refer to things like word choice. Connotation, tone figures of speech, and so on. Romeo describes the woman he loves by saying: ‘’She hath Dian’s wit.”- Here Romeo is comparing her to the Roman goddess Diana because she is chaste and does not want to marry. “O she is rich in beauty, only poor that when she dies, with beauty dies her store.” – Romeo is saying that she is beautiful, but it is a shame that she will not pass her beauty down to anyone because she does not want to have children.
A massage and a wave, and a collar for the dog, and one of those cute little ash-trays where you touch a spring, and a wreath with a black silk bow for mother’s grave that’ll last all summer”(36). From first time she meets Nick, she is incessantly babbling about buying things. Her desire for objects spawns from her emulating the other ladies of the west egg who all have many possessions. Myrtle is in love with the idea of being a classy lady and does not love Tom; she is only using him to accomplish her goals. Similarly, Gatsby uses Daisy to accomplish his goal of becoming a god.
So many girls have this fantasy of being Cinderella and having a “fairy tale” life, but what version of Cinderella and what types of fairy tales are these girls looking up to for their idea of an ideal life? In Marcia Lieberman’s essay “Some Day My Prince Will Come,” she opposes the views of another scholar, Alison Laurie, who believes that fairy tales are something that radical feminists would approve of because the stories, “suggest a society in which women are as competent and active as men, at every age and in every class.” Lieberman argues that it is popular fairy tales--the ones that we all know and the ones we read to our children--that actually acculturate the masses of young girls in society, therefore the lesser-known stories cannot
Mama Odie tells Naveen and Tiana, that Naveen must kiss Charlotte before twelve for she is the Mardi gras princess. The voodoo man Facilier promises to fulfill her dreams and turn her human, but Tiana realizes that she loves Naveen. She realizes that love is as important as her dreams. In the movie Tiana was very loyal to herself and her dreams. She endured a lot in order to break the curse and become human again.
In this story Panttaja says it is both mothers that are wicked. Panttaja states the real mother “plots and schemes, and she wins” (Panttaja 660) when it comes to fulfilling the wishes of Ashputtle. But actually the two mothers have the same goal in mind; to have their daughters married off and have a joyful life. To be able to do this, the real mother puts a charm on the prince to make him fall in love with Ashputtle instead of anyone else. The prince did not dance with anyone else all night and would always say “she is my partner” (Grimm 630).
A few years ago there were movies such as his examples “Charlie's Angels, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, and the Powder Puff girls” Where women were very fierce and self defendant. Women could “kick-butt”, and we watched these movies where the women were portrayed as the hero’s. Before that, the fairy tales were pretty much the “back-in-the day” old fashioned versions where the princess was an innocent being who got rescued and swept off her feet by her prince charming. The author explains that drastic change that has occurred, and if you think about it, that is pretty drastic, going from a helpless innocent girl who gets rescued from her dull or evil life by her prince charming. Then it altered to where the “princess” was then a hard core very strong and good fighter who could easily defend herself.
When the star-crossed lovers first encounter Romeo delivers a soliloquy, this reveals his inner thoughts to the audience. In this Romeo describes Juliet ‘as a rich jewel in an Ethiop’s ear’ this means that she stands out amongst a crowd; he also expresses that she is a dove amongst a flock of crows. In the soliliquey he does nothing but compliment Juliet and he appearance. Juliet is presented initially as a polite and courteous young lady however during the scene she is quite flirtatious with Romeo. After she has kissed Romeo she says to her nurse “if he be married, my grave is like to be my wedding bed.” This shows her maturity as she is making a very strong decision here however it also shows her
In Medeas case, very. I would say that the first moment Medea was used for was when Jason first laid eyes on her. As is says in the story when Aphrodites asked her son Eros to cast a love spell on Medea, “...Aphrodite ask her son Eros to cast a spell upon Medea, causing her to fall in love with Jason.”(from story Jason pg.269) In my opinion, she was just used for love, she was forced into it. As we all know, you can’t force love. Second would be when Jason was sent to go get the golden fleece, he used Medea for her sorcery to get protected through all the obstacles.